Analyzing the Different Types of Milk We Drink

We are mammals. And as mammals, there is something very unique to our kingdom (our scientific kingdom, not an actual kingdom you dolts). Can you guess what it is? It's milk, in point of fact. Every mammal on Earth produces milk. No other animals do. Birds, reptiles, amphibians... not one of them feeds milk to their babies. Mammals are unique in that area. We humans use milk all the time as well. We drink milk with our coffee, our cereal. We dip cookies into it. We eat it as babies. But what kind of milk is the best? This article focuses on the three major types of milk that humans use; whole milk, two percent milk, and skim milk (I am not going to do anything on soy milk).

Whole milk is my personal favorite. It still retains most of the butterfat found in regular milk. Whole milk has more flavor than it's counterparts. This is due to the butterfat. Whole milk has more fat and calories than the other two types. It is also more expensive. I do not know why. It does not make sense to me because one would think that the extra effort it takes to remove the fat from two percent and skim milk would drive up the prices. In any case, whole milk is the most like natural milk.

Two percent milk looks the same as whole milk but is very different. A lot of the butterfat in two percent milk has been removed. As a result, two percent milk has less fat and calories than whole milk, but not as many nutrients either. Taste also becomes a factor. Without the butterfat to give it flavor, two percent milk starts to taste very watery, as if the milk had ice cubes in it and they melted. I do not like to drink two percent milk if I can help it but I can still stomach it when I have to. I cannot say the same, however, for skim milk.

Skim milk is the last of our three types of milk. It has had almost all of the butterfat removed from it. It has almost no fat or calories. In addition to that, it also has a terrible taste. It tastes very watered down, almost like you were drinking a glass of water and had the sudden urge to add a little bit of milk to it. Skim milk is almost exclusively for health nuts and vegetarians. I cannot think of why anyone in their right mind would willingly drink the stuff.

So, looking at the factors of taste, nutrition, and weight watching, it comes down to which of these matters most to you. I like whole milk the best because it tastes good. My mother likes two percent milk because it's cheaper than whole milk. My vegetarian friend likes skim milk because she somehow thinks that drinking regular milk is doing animals harm (she really is a little out there). It all depends on personal preference, but in the end no one can say which one is more superior to the others. Perhaps none of them are.

No sources except prior knowledge were used in this article.